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THE CAT NEXT DOOR
Written by Birsa Shepard. Illustrated by Pelagie Doane.
Stock no. 1328601
Published by The Children's Book Club. 1946. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Red cloth spine, blue boards with black titles. B/w illustrations. 64 pages. Mollie rescues some kittens! Spine slightly bumped. Contents clean. Dustwrapper is grubby and foxed, wear with minimal loss to spine and some fading.

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BEATRIX POTTER THE COMPLETE TALES
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1328599
Published by Frederick Warne; The Penguin Group. Circa 2012. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Bringing together all 23 of the Peter Rabbit stories plus 4 other works. Large, heavy format. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout. Cream boards, blue titles and vignettes. 400 pages. ISBN: 9780723268123. 5th printing. Minimal bumping to spine. A few light marks to spine. Contents fine. Contained in a pictorial slipcase.

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APPLEY DAPPLY'S NURSERY RHYMES
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1328544
Published by Frederick Warne & Co.. 1st 1917. Very good condition.

Small format. Green boards with red lettering. Pictorial onlay to front cover. 52 numbered pages. Colour illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Inscription in ink to half title-page. Some light page browning, fingering and other marks to generally clean contents.

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THE TALE OF LITTLE PIG ROBINSON
Written by Beatrix Potter. Illustrated by Beatrix Potter.
Stock no. 1328539
Published by Frederick Warne & Co Ltd.. 1st 1930. Very good condition.

Blue cloth, gilt title, brown vignette and lettering. Pictorial endpapers. 6 colour plates plus b/w drawings. Larger format than the other "Tales". 96 pages. Spine browned and worn at ends. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Light foxing to textblock.

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THE CHURCH CAT ABROAD
Written by Graham Oakley. Illustrated by Graham Oakley.
Stock no. 1328505
Published by Macmillan Children's Books. 1st 1973. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

The church cat and two church mice set out to boost the Vestry Roof Repair fund... Pictorial boards, oblong format. Bright colour pictures throughout. ISBN: 0333148258. Spine and corners bumped, covers edge rubbed. Child's name in biro to title-page. Contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is torn at corners and slightly browned at edges.

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THE CHURCH MICE ADRIFT
Written by Graham Oakley. Illustrated by Graham Oakley.
Stock no. 1328503
Published by Templar Publishing. 1st thus 2010. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Modern Classics series. When Sampson the cat and his friends the mice are forced out of the church by a nasty group of rats, they must come up with a cunning plan - with a very sticky ending! Pale blue boards, silver title to spine. Colour illustrations throughout. ISBN: 9781848770621. Tiny nick to top of spine. Dustwrapper is edge rubbed. Front panel is slightly damaged from damp.

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BABAR'S FAIR
Written by Laurent De Brunhoff; Olive Jones.
Stock no. 1328502
Published by Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1969. Very good condition.

First published under the title 'La Fete de Celesteville'. Translated from French by Jones. Glazed pictorial boards. Colour illustrations. ISBN: 0416933807. Spine and corners bumped and rubbed. Slight cracking to spine edges. Contents clean.

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FAMOUS ANIMAL TALES
No author listed. Illustrated by Ernest A. Aris.
Stock no. 1328500
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. 1st 1935. Almost very good condition.

Cream pictorial cloth. Grey pictorial endpapers. Colour plates plus b/w text illustrations throughout. Stories include: The Tar-Baby; How Brer Rabbit Was Too Sharp For Brer Fox; Who Killed Cock Robin?; The Mad Tea-Party; The Three Bears; etc. Spine and corners bumped. Spine worn at top and tail and printed title/illustration rubbed. Corner creases to a couple of pages and tiny margin tear to one page. A nice copy.

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GOLD GORSE COMMON
Written by Mollie Kaye. Illustrated by Margaret Tempest.
Stock no. 1328479
Published by Collins. 1st 1945. Very good condition.

Yellow cloth spine, pictorial boards. The Potter Pinner series. Text in script with pretty colour illustrations to text. Corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Spine darkened. Heavy pencil pricing to front free-endpaper. Pencil name to belongs to box (attempt has previously been made to erase it).

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THE MAGIC PUDDING
Written by Norman Lindsay. Illustrated by Norman Lindsay.
Stock no. 1328416
Published by Angus & Robertson. 1968. Very good condition in a fair dustwrapper.

Jubilee Edition of 2000 copies. Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. 171 pages. Colour plates plus b/w text illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Faint damp stains to covers. A few foxspots to endpapers. Some slight page wrinkling to first 20 pages at lower margins. Unfortunately there are damp stains at the lower inner margins of the colour plates (the actual illustrations are not affected). Damp damaged dustwrapper has large piece of loss to lower edge of front panel, is edge worn, torn and creased and is price-cut.

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THE GREAT MENAGERIE AN ADAPTION OF THE ANTIQUE POP-UP BOOK
No author listed.
Stock no. 1328390
Published by Kestrel Books; Penguin. 1979. Very good condition.

Glazed pictorial boards. 6 pop-up pages. ISBN: 0722656483. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Colour from the small cloth tabs has transferred to the pages.

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ABOUT BARNEY
Written by Anne Casserley. Illustrated by Richard Kennedy.
Stock no. 1328385
Published by Faber & Faber Ltd.. 1st 1957. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Barney was the Farmer's donkey and when there was trouble he was usually at the bottom of it! Yellow cloth, blue title to spine. B/w text illustrations. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Small, faint mark to front cover. Endpapers partly browned, slight foxing to textblock. Dustwrapper is edge worn, grubby and browned to rear panel and spine

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